On 12 February 2016 at 08:45, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2016 1:23 PM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> We already have a command which outputs the needed info (as egg info) >> - and my draft PEP has a similar one, using PEP427 wheel METADATA >> format. > > with JSON-LD.org, warehouse can be built with RDFJS.org for the UI; and > anything could index the catalog metadata (e.g. pip, as it does things) This is a non-sequitor and entirely unrelated to the discussion with Marc-Andre about reusing setup.py as the interface vs a new interface. >> Plus the one I've already mentioned >> >> - how do we fix the bootstrap issue setup.py has ? > > https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py How does that address the issue? I think perhaps you are thinking of 'how do you install pip'. The thing I'm referring to is 'how do you install flit', or 'numpy', or other build time requirements. It must be automated, such that pip can do it. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hpe.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig